Synoptic analysis of a rare event of Saharan dust reaching the Arctic region

Weather

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 208-211

  Barkan, Joseph ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; FLOW FIELD; LIDAR; OBSERVATORY; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARCTIC; SAHARA;

EID: 77955439202     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.503     Document Type: Article

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